My house gets electricity and all the essentials, but no cable and no DSL. My options for internet have always been satellite and wireless. I opt for wireless only because it pings better. Both services generally suck and are subject to many downages and bottlenecks.
If our power company offered us cable internet service I'd be in an eternal bliss, because I could drop my horrible provider. I hope this idea spreads.
*Hangs head* My ISP uses MS DOS on their servers. They also claim to be incapable of capping user's bandwidth.
Leave. Why pay them for shitty service?
It's either this, dialup, or satellite. I play games, so low ping is a priority. Since dialup is bad pings and satellite is even worse, I'm stuck with what I'm on.
I use a wireless ISP at home as it is my only form of broadband. From my perspective, wireless is great! I've loved it since day one. It kicks the crap out of satellite.. I can actually play games now with a decent ping!
But the problem is, my ISP is cheap. 100% stingy. All of the some 200 people who use this little local service are shoved onto a single IP. Yep. My IP is used by 200 people. That's so much fun when some stupid kid using my internet service gets everyone IP banned from some service.
Furthermore, when some fool decides to put his entire hard drive out for grabs on Kazaa, everyone on the network suffers. Our service is subject to frequent bottlenecks and complete downages regularly.
My ISP hasn't given a crap about the standards for years and I don't see that changing anytime soon.:(
Since Mac (OSX) runs Unix based now, the incompatabilities have been reduced greatly. While Mac still relies on proprietary hardware, some would argue that's a strength, not a weakness. Personally I like being able to customize what parts go in my machine, but on a Mac, you never have to worry about driver problems.
Microsoft Windows is the only operating system that isn't Unix based, and it will be their undoing. While technically Mac competes with Linux (from an economical standpoint), they're actually working together to pick away at Microsoft. If MS wants to stay in business, they had better go Unix-based too. I forsee the combined strength of the Unix-based operating systems eventually crushing MS.
But then again, that's just my 2 cents. (and a paperclip.)
Warning: Breathing air could kill you! Someone could poison the air and you could die! You must take percautions to make sure that doesn't happen! Major health risk!
Come the hell on. How many times are we told a year that one of our daily activities will kill us? Well I got news for ya, scientists, doctors, etc. I'm gonna die anyway. So I'd rather die doing what I love. Clogging my arteries.. uh.. yeah.
OK I realize this is a duped post, but I never got a chance to read it before, I only realized it was duped when I read the comments! o_O
Anyway,
VHS won because "the whole product" did what people wanted at a price they were willing to pay. And when people use the VHS v Beta analogy, they are not indicating a market failure but their own ignorance.
People's ignorance is the most common reason new products don't succeed, yeah, obvious, we know. But who's to say this product didn't suck? Isn't this guy being a little arrogant to say people as a whole are just plain ignorant? Ok so we are. I'm ignorant. YOU reading my post, yeah you, you're ignorant too. We all are. But if we, the ignorant masses accepted all the new and radical ideas introduced to us over the last few decades, why would this be any different? I say, because it wasn't a good product. And I'd venture that's what everyone else who didn't like it thought too.
Just my 2 cents (and a paper clip)
f you had been paying any attention whatsoever for the last 3 years you would have noticed that most of the websites that were 100% advertising are now out of business.
These companies go out of business because they have nothing to offer on their websites that keeps people coming. If you could download each new episode of The Simpsons from their website each week, wouldn't you keep coming?
Who Owns Your Digital Media?
Obviously the artists who make it.
But more copy protection isn't the solution to all this pirating going on. Music, movies, TV shows, and other forms of digital media should be made downloadable on the website of whoever owns it. The owner could still profit quite handsomely from advertisements on the website, seeing as how more people will visit it to grab all the free media they would offer. Video media such as TV shows and movies would have built-in ads within them too.
Hey, what better way to "pollute" or "stop" the P2P networks than making your product perfect quality and free! Who would want to download a movie off Kazaa when you can get it off the corporate website where you know your download won't get cut off? If you rip your own product into a file, you can throw as many ads into it as you wish. Granted, there would still be P2P around, but it'd be harder to find video and audio media without ads. Most people would be subject to ads, still, and the profit would still be there, just not at the expense of the user. This system discourages pirating.
Perhaps if these companies would grow a set of balls and try something new (actually old.. TV has been doing it for decades) then they could stop worrying about copy protection. If a user downloaded your movie off your website laced with Ads you get paid for, then mass distributes it via P2P, their bandwidth is actually making you money. Why haven't these companies thought of this yet?
Open source software is becoming increasingly popular lately. A few years ago, many people laughed at the concept and thought that open source = security risk. Those who supported it have proven otherwise. Closed source programs end up having more bugs and security holes in the long run because open source programs get debugged by thousands of users.
.Org is just one shining example of how large organizations are beginning to lean toward open source, not necessarily in support of open source ideals, but because it's simply better quality.
A lot of people see this sort of thing as a huge joke but I don't. Studying something in-depth that revolves around entertainment is really no different than a kind of community service. By being well educated about a specific form of entertainment, you become a better creator of that form of entertainment, improving the quality of life of those who indulge in this entertainment. As such, you help the industry evolve and improve faster. The concept of taking an Anime college course will prove to be quite beneficial to the Anime industry itself, I think.
Who cares about flavors? Hell I'd give up eating in exchange for no more hunger any day! Sign me up for some of that stuff! Hmm.. I wonder if you don't have to eat you no longer have to go to the bathroom? Interesting thought. I could code for over a week straight without ever leaving the computer but to sleep! Hahahaha what will they think of next?
CDs are way too overpriced.. 15$ for a CD that costs 2$ to make.. and artists are poor?! Gee I wonder who gets all that extra money.. well I guess I'm just stating the obvious about how the record companies rape artists and customers both.
The problem with communications technologies is that there is a monopoly in the industry. Well perhaps not a monoply, but certainly an oligopy. How many phone companies can you name off the top of your head? 5? How about ISPs? Communications aren't advancing at the pace of technology because none of these capitalists want to give up their precious money.
Perhaps that's why we don't have wireless internet access everywhere in the U.S. or why cars still run on non-renewable resources even though there are safe, clean, easy-to-produce alternatives. Companies which fill our cars with gas, provide us with barely stable internet access, and manufacture paper take advantage of public ignorance so much that "we are literally wiping our ass with our own future," as a great man once said.
Do we really need this guy to tell us how secure Linux is? Want to see something funny? Do a search on Microsoft's website for Linux. Tons of articles about how "insecure" Linux is. If Microsoft is so paranoid about Linux's great security that it has to spam its own website with anti-Linux security articles, that should speak for itself!:)
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My house gets electricity and all the essentials, but no cable and no DSL. My options for internet have always been satellite and wireless. I opt for wireless only because it pings better. Both services generally suck and are subject to many downages and bottlenecks.
If our power company offered us cable internet service I'd be in an eternal bliss, because I could drop my horrible provider. I hope this idea spreads.
The United States government favors Microsoft products while NASA favors Linux? Hah. Which organization would you trust your tax dollars with more?
Has your ISP ever heard of traffic shaping?
*Hangs head* My ISP uses MS DOS on their servers. They also claim to be incapable of capping user's bandwidth. Leave. Why pay them for shitty service?
It's either this, dialup, or satellite. I play games, so low ping is a priority. Since dialup is bad pings and satellite is even worse, I'm stuck with what I'm on.
I use a wireless ISP at home as it is my only form of broadband. From my perspective, wireless is great! I've loved it since day one. It kicks the crap out of satellite.. I can actually play games now with a decent ping!
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:(
But the problem is, my ISP is cheap. 100% stingy. All of the some 200 people who use this little local service are shoved onto a single IP. Yep. My IP is used by 200 people. That's so much fun when some stupid kid using my internet service gets everyone IP banned from some service.
Furthermore, when some fool decides to put his entire hard drive out for grabs on Kazaa, everyone on the network suffers. Our service is subject to frequent bottlenecks and complete downages regularly
My ISP hasn't given a crap about the standards for years and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Since Mac (OSX) runs Unix based now, the incompatabilities have been reduced greatly. While Mac still relies on proprietary hardware, some would argue that's a strength, not a weakness. Personally I like being able to customize what parts go in my machine, but on a Mac, you never have to worry about driver problems.
Microsoft Windows is the only operating system that isn't Unix based, and it will be their undoing. While technically Mac competes with Linux (from an economical standpoint), they're actually working together to pick away at Microsoft. If MS wants to stay in business, they had better go Unix-based too. I forsee the combined strength of the Unix-based operating systems eventually crushing MS.
But then again, that's just my 2 cents. (and a paperclip.)
Warning: Breathing air could kill you! Someone could poison the air and you could die! You must take percautions to make sure that doesn't happen! Major health risk!
Come the hell on. How many times are we told a year that one of our daily activities will kill us? Well I got news for ya, scientists, doctors, etc. I'm gonna die anyway. So I'd rather die doing what I love. Clogging my arteries.. uh.. yeah.
OK I realize this is a duped post, but I never got a chance to read it before, I only realized it was duped when I read the comments! o_O Anyway, VHS won because "the whole product" did what people wanted at a price they were willing to pay. And when people use the VHS v Beta analogy, they are not indicating a market failure but their own ignorance. People's ignorance is the most common reason new products don't succeed, yeah, obvious, we know. But who's to say this product didn't suck? Isn't this guy being a little arrogant to say people as a whole are just plain ignorant? Ok so we are. I'm ignorant. YOU reading my post, yeah you, you're ignorant too. We all are. But if we, the ignorant masses accepted all the new and radical ideas introduced to us over the last few decades, why would this be any different? I say, because it wasn't a good product. And I'd venture that's what everyone else who didn't like it thought too. Just my 2 cents (and a paper clip)
f you had been paying any attention whatsoever for the last 3 years you would have noticed that most of the websites that were 100% advertising are now out of business.
These companies go out of business because they have nothing to offer on their websites that keeps people coming. If you could download each new episode of The Simpsons from their website each week, wouldn't you keep coming?
Who Owns Your Digital Media?
Obviously the artists who make it.
But more copy protection isn't the solution to all this pirating going on. Music, movies, TV shows, and other forms of digital media should be made downloadable on the website of whoever owns it. The owner could still profit quite handsomely from advertisements on the website, seeing as how more people will visit it to grab all the free media they would offer. Video media such as TV shows and movies would have built-in ads within them too.
Hey, what better way to "pollute" or "stop" the P2P networks than making your product perfect quality and free! Who would want to download a movie off Kazaa when you can get it off the corporate website where you know your download won't get cut off? If you rip your own product into a file, you can throw as many ads into it as you wish. Granted, there would still be P2P around, but it'd be harder to find video and audio media without ads. Most people would be subject to ads, still, and the profit would still be there, just not at the expense of the user. This system discourages pirating.
Perhaps if these companies would grow a set of balls and try something new (actually old.. TV has been doing it for decades) then they could stop worrying about copy protection. If a user downloaded your movie off your website laced with Ads you get paid for, then mass distributes it via P2P, their bandwidth is actually making you money. Why haven't these companies thought of this yet?
wtf? I don't even know how the karma system on slashdot works. I just posted my opinion. Sheesh.
Open source software is becoming increasingly popular lately. A few years ago, many people laughed at the concept and thought that open source = security risk. Those who supported it have proven otherwise. Closed source programs end up having more bugs and security holes in the long run because open source programs get debugged by thousands of users.
.Org is just one shining example of how large organizations are beginning to lean toward open source, not necessarily in support of open source ideals, but because it's simply better quality.
A lot of people see this sort of thing as a huge joke but I don't. Studying something in-depth that revolves around entertainment is really no different than a kind of community service. By being well educated about a specific form of entertainment, you become a better creator of that form of entertainment, improving the quality of life of those who indulge in this entertainment. As such, you help the industry evolve and improve faster. The concept of taking an Anime college course will prove to be quite beneficial to the Anime industry itself, I think.
Who cares about flavors? Hell I'd give up eating in exchange for no more hunger any day! Sign me up for some of that stuff! Hmm.. I wonder if you don't have to eat you no longer have to go to the bathroom? Interesting thought. I could code for over a week straight without ever leaving the computer but to sleep! Hahahaha what will they think of next?
CDs are way too overpriced.. 15$ for a CD that costs 2$ to make.. and artists are poor?! Gee I wonder who gets all that extra money.. well I guess I'm just stating the obvious about how the record companies rape artists and customers both.
I applaud people who stand up against this crap.
The problem with communications technologies is that there is a monopoly in the industry. Well perhaps not a monoply, but certainly an oligopy. How many phone companies can you name off the top of your head? 5? How about ISPs? Communications aren't advancing at the pace of technology because none of these capitalists want to give up their precious money.
Perhaps that's why we don't have wireless internet access everywhere in the U.S. or why cars still run on non-renewable resources even though there are safe, clean, easy-to-produce alternatives. Companies which fill our cars with gas, provide us with barely stable internet access, and manufacture paper take advantage of public ignorance so much that "we are literally wiping our ass with our own future," as a great man once said.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA... Linux secures you.
:)
Do we really need this guy to tell us how secure Linux is? Want to see something funny? Do a search on Microsoft's website for Linux. Tons of articles about how "insecure" Linux is. If Microsoft is so paranoid about Linux's great security that it has to spam its own website with anti-Linux security articles, that should speak for itself!
Mozilla is coming along nicely. I've recommended it as an alternative to IE to all my friends and family. No popups and tabbed browing has me hooked :)
Agreed.